Remembering the time David Bowie called out MTV for not playing black artists. [UpWorthy.com]
Early MTV had a major problem: It was almost exclusively white. As it set out to revolutionize the music industry, MTV hit a few major bumps in the road, which included accusations of racism for the lack of diverse artists on the network in its early years. "There was a shortage of Black videos by urban artists," MTV co-founder Les Garland told Jet Magazine in 2006 . "The success of this AOR (album-oriented rock) format in radio certainly had its influence on MTV. But, there were no music...